Today, Nicholas began by reading his sight words: I is for a at it in go to the me see The only word Nicholas had difficulty with was "see." He added the new word, "and," by sounding it out. Nicholas attempted oral sentences with the words "to," "the," "at," "go," and "it." We will continue to practice creating sentences with Nicholas' sight words. I asked Nicholas to print the words "at," "in," and "it." We sounded out each word and he printed the letters he heard. We then played the game, "BANG," in order to reinforce all sight words. Nicholas worked on reading "-at family" words--bat cat fat mat pat rat sat hat Some he recognizes instantly. Others he is able to sound out and then say the word. Nicholas reread his sight word reader "The Pet Store," with the focus on the word "the/The." He read a new story, "The Beach," with the focus, again, on the word "the/The." He then reread the reader titled "Cars," with the focus on the words "see" and "the." Nicholas worked on a quick art project, focusing on the letter "Uu." He painted a coffee filter and used that as his umbrella. A pipe cleaner served as the handle to the umbrella. Nicholas then added "raindrops." He then printed "I see the umbrella." He found the sight word card, "the," to check his spelling. He listened to the sounds in"umbrella" as we sounded it out together. Nicholas counted to "39" on his own. I then said, "40," and he continued to "59." We worked on identifying the numbers 1-10. He knew all of these numbers.